Category: blogging

How I Organize Posts In Jekyll

Since November 2010, I have been running Jekyll to power this blog. Before Jekyll, I was on self-hosted Wordpress, which could explain some of my decisions around how I organize my posts because I didn’t want to break any existing links. You can find some interesting resources on Jekyll that...

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Blog Redesign

The new redesigned somic.org just went live - if you are reading this in RSS reader and would like to see what it looks like now, you can visit the site at http://somic.org. One change that you may notice immediately is a new theme. I dropped Cutline and switched to...

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The Ultimate Twitter

Microblogging started in large part as a medium to keep a close circle of friends updated on one’s activities and whereabouts on the go (in other words, without access to a computer). Since that time, as most know, it grew and expanded its scope to include meeting new people, forming...

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On Privacy of Private RSS Feeds

I have been using Google Reader as my main RSS aggregator for several years now. Unlike some others, I however continue to use a desktop-based RSS client to subscribe to private feeds. This was an intuitive decision, I didn’t spend much time thinking about it. Earlier this week, I was...

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SEO and 301 Redirect

I was under assumption that when a site moves to a new domain or URL space, the best thing to do from SEO perspective was to put up one’s site at a new place and set up old site to do HTTP 301 redirects (Moved Permanently). I did it a...

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Yan's 5 Reasons to Have a Blog

Yan over at skwpspace.com, who also works at CohesiveFT, wrote an excellent post on 5 reasons you should blog. I would add another to his 5: I view this site as well as my blog as a central index of my activities in blogosphere and social Internet, which I want...

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